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Word: plot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nations headquarters in New York City, the political heat soared amid a new wave of revelations and signs of impending prosecutions of B.C.C.I. Yet, from London to Bangladesh, the bank's depositors, who may have been bilked of $10 billion in deposits, protested B.C.C.I.'s closure as a Western plot to subjugate the Muslim world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corruption: Feeling the Heat | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

...HEAD (20th Century Fox) A bizarre comedy about a wisecracking, bodyless scientist and his eccentric brother and how they foil a plot to steal their secret hair-growth formula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Pipeline | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

...illegal diversion of profits from Iranian arms sales to the Nicaraguan contras an unauthorized plot hatched by a small band of zealots in Ronald Reagan's National Security Council? Or did high-ranking members of the U.S. intelligence community not only learn about the scheme and do nothing to stop it, but unlawfully help to conceal it from Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scandals: Walsh: Targeting A CIA Cover-Up | 7/29/1991 | See Source »

...though, limning the attempts of FBI agent Reeves to infiltrate Swayze's beach-bum bank gang, Bigelow often forsakes her wits. Naked babe nukes G-men. Hero weakly abets heist. Director defers climax for a little documentary on skydiving. So how do you rate a stunningly made film whose plot buys so blithely into macho mysticism that it threatens to turn into an endless bummer? Looks 10, Brains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Board Stiff | 7/22/1991 | See Source »

...fill the seat of one of the greatest civil rights heroes, Bush found a black who actually believes in the Republican notion that minorities need the absence of discrimination, not affirmative action, in order to succeed. Thomas has pitched his political tent on a small plot of ground where black nationalism and Republican conservatism converge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: Marching to a Different Drummer | 7/15/1991 | See Source »

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